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.Patented Feb. lL-1913.y Application filed October 1912. Serial No. 723,497. i

,52,529, Specieation of 'Letters etent.

To all whom it may concern: formed with a beveled depression 3 in the Be it known that l, EDWARD TAENZER, a upper surface around the edge which de-v citizen of the United States, residing at pression is deepest at its inner extremity, Reading, in the county ot' Berks and State thus forming a vertical wall forming a of Pennsylvania, have invented certain-new shoulder Il which extends entirely around and useful Improvements in Shoes, ot which the sole.. the following is a specification. The numeral 5 designates the Welt which This invention relates to improvements in is formed with a V-shaped groove 6 to pershoes and the object in the present instance is mit the inner edge to he set at right angles to provide what is commonly termed a turn to the base portion, forming an upstanding shoe with means for attaching thereto a lip 7, adapted to rest against the shoulder second sole, after the original sole has been e. The Welt is placed in the depression 3v worn through. Ordinarily the turn shoe is and is attached to the sole by a line of stitchstitched directly to the sole and then turned, ing 8, see Fig. 2. and in such case, when thel sole Wears llShe numeral 9 designates the shoe upper. 65 through, there is no possibility ot re-soling ln attaching this portion to the sole, it is the shoe, as can be done with a Welt shoe, {irst turned, and its edge is attached to the in which the shoe upper is attached to the Welt and the sole by ,a line of stitches 10, v'Welt and the sole secured to the welt instead passing through the upper, the grooved or f, otto the u per. In my present invention I tion 6 of the Welt, and the shoulder 4 o the 70 overcome t 1s objection by first attaching a sole into the channel 2. When the upper Welt to the sole and then attaching the up has been thus stitched. it is turned, to the per thereto by stitching through the welt position indicated in Fig. fl, after the edge and the channel formed in the sole, in which of the Welt and the upper, l1, and 12, have case, when the sole is Worn out, the second been properly dressed down. sole may be attached directly to the Welt By this construction I provide a shoeI in just as the first sole has been attached, hy which. the second sole may be easily attached a line' of stitching outside of the line that to the belt, without interfering with the secures the upper to the Welt. The construcoriginal sole fastening. tion thus forms what might be termed a wWhat l claim and desire to secure by Let- S0 channel turn Welt shoe in contradistincters Patent is tion to a turn shoe a ,Welt shoe, a l. in a turn shoe, an outer sole formed channel welt shoe or a channel turn with a channel in its upper face and a bevshoe. eled depression in its upper face around the The invention is more fully described in edge7 said depression being deepest at its in- 85 the following specification and clearly illusner extremity, and havinf a vertical Wall trated in the accompanying' drawing, in at the inner extremity o said depression which each of the igures represents a. secforming a shoulder; a welt' formed with a, tion through a portion of a shoe sole, Figure il-shaped groove, the main portion of which 1 being a View of the sole with the beveled Welt lies on the base of said depression and 90l depression and the channel formed therein; the inner edge of which stands at substan- Fig. 2 a like view With the welt attached to tially right angles thereto and against said the sole; Fig. 3 a like view with the upper vertical Wall; and a shoe upper attached to attached, and Fig. 4- a like view with the the sole by stitches passing through the upper turned and the edge ot the Welt channeled portion ot the sole and the V- dressed down. shaped groove of the Welt.

The numeral l designates the shoe sole 2. In a turn shoe, a sole formed with a *which is formed with the usual channel 2 channel in its upper surface, a beveled dein its upper surface through which the uppression in its upper surface around` the per may be attached thereto. The sole is edge, said depression being deepest at its f yinner extremity, and a vertical Wall at the ix'mer end of said depression, a welt formed ith a V-shaped groove and having an lp- Vstanding lip adapted to bea.;- against said ,der before turning.

shouldeirend an vripper portion attachedjto '1f-the s'ole by stitching it to said lip and sho'lil- In testimony whereo I aHX my signature in presenceof twowitnesses.

MARY E. STAUFFER. 

